Hopper, Trevor; Major, Maria - In: European Accounting Review 16 (2007) 1, pp. 59-97
This paper examines why a Portuguese telecommunications company - Marconi - adopted activity-based costing (ABC). The focus lies in new institutional sociology (NIS), particularly the institutional change model of Dillard et al. (Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 17(4), pp....